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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (2): 191–193.
Published: 01 June 1989
.... Such assumptions are commonly queried, and I wish they had been here. BOYDM. BERRY Virgznia Commonwealth Uniuersity Two-Edg’d Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreue. By ROBERTMARKLEY. Oxford: Clarendon...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (2): 179–187.
Published: 01 June 1946
...Francis Christensen Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 JOHN WILKINS AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY’S REFORM OF PROSE STYLE. PART ONE By FRANCISCHRISTENSEK That the Royal Society was influential in rationalizing the prose style...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (3): 279–290.
Published: 01 September 1946
...Francis Christensen JOHN WILKINS AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY’S REFORM OF PROSE STYLE. PART TWO By FRANCISCHRISTENSEN I1 In 1921 Professor 0. F. Emerson wrote for the present British Academy a paper on “John Dryden...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (2): 270–273.
Published: 01 June 1998
... in fre- quent allusions to canonical texts or related philosophical positions, and cultivates a style of crisp and definitive judgment. The resulting impatient, authoritative manner resembles that found in the essays of Geoffrey Hart- Collings I Review...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (4): 486–491.
Published: 01 December 1950
...A. Lytton Sells Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 LA CHARTREUSE DE PARME: THE PROBLEM OF STYLE BY A. LYTTONSELLS There can be few examples in fiction of a novel as powerful as the Chrtreuse de Parme which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 363–365.
Published: 01 September 1950
... of Style and Meaning in the Ramblcr and Diction- ary of Samuel Johnson. By W. K. WIMSATT,JR. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1948. Pp. xvii + 167. $3.75. Recently William Empson’s influential Seven Types of Ambiguity has been reissued. In his latest book, Professor Wimsatt calls our...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 193–217.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Spencer Lee-Lenfield Abstract General accounts of Gustave Flaubert’s influence on English-language writers have tended to assume that the publication of his fiction was enough to change the style of English prose. However, close examination of Flaubert’s reception in the second half...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 81–83.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Sierra Eckert [email protected] Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style . By Simon Reader . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2021 . ix + 238 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Simon Reader’s Notework is as much about...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 323–346.
Published: 01 September 2023
... social situation. Drawing on recent work on the politics of style, this essay argues that Gissing’s narrative style is best understood in terms of two motivating forces powerfully at work in late nineteenth-century Britain: an ascendant popular culture and the massive expansion of the imperial regime...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (2): 131–134.
Published: 01 June 1948
...Don A. McKenzie Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 OTFRIDIANA SOME COMMENTS ON OTFRID’S “STYLE” By DONA. MCKENZIE In a monograph’ on the relation of Otfrid’s Evangel Harmony to its Vulgate sources the present writer...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 259–272.
Published: 01 September 1948
...Leo Spitzer Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 PATTERNS OF THOUGHT IN THE STYLE OF ALBERT THIBAUDET (PART ONE) By LEOSPITZER The following study will test the possibility of analyzing the style of a literary critic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (4): 478–491.
Published: 01 December 1948
... constituerait i Boileau “presence.” Flau- bert rtvait d’Ccrire, B propos de Madame Bovary, quelque chose qui se tint tout seul, sans sujet, sans matiQe, et rien que par la force du style. Or Boileau a voulu faire et a rCussi dans le Lutrin quelque chose &analogue. Ce qui nous plait d‘ailleurs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (1): 76–79.
Published: 01 March 1988
... to readers of theLegend and indeed of far more accessible Chaucerian works. SHEILADELANY Simon Fraser University Shifting Perspectives and the Stylish Style: Mannerism in Shakespeare and His Jaco- bean Contemporaries. By JOHN GREENWOOD...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (3): 286–288.
Published: 01 September 1954
... this volume-and it usually can. CURTISC. D. VAIL University of Washington Agrippa d’Aubignk’s “Les Tragiques”: A Study of the Baroque Style in Poetry. Par IMBRIEBUFFUM. New Haven: Yale Romanic Studies, second series, No. 1 ; Paris...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (3): 273–274.
Published: 01 September 1958
... his lexi- cographical web-he might emerge from the cocoon, return to the public world of letters, and put to livelier or more relaxed uses a mind as keen as any of our time. HERBERTJ. MUUER Indiana University The Poetic Style...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (3): 243–251.
Published: 01 September 1959
...J. M. Stedmond © 1959 University of Washington 1959 STYLE AND TRISTRAM SHANDY By J. M. STEDMOND When the literary critic considers the tradition to which a work belongs in order to determine the underlying conventions which help to shape it, he...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (1): 29–47.
Published: 01 March 1985
...W. Paul Elledge Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE By W. PAULELLEDGE By the time Byron began Beppo in the autumn of 18 17, he was well practiced in the experience and the poetry of separation...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 171–204.
Published: 01 June 1942
...Detlev W. Schumann Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ENUMERATIVE STYLE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN WHITMAN, RILKE, WERFEL By DETLEV w. SCHUhlANN In a poetic eulogy of Walt Whitman, Herbert Eulenberg thus apostrophizes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 March 1942
... research into the subject may safely build. E. E. BOSTETTER University of Washington TJae Prose Style of Samuel Johnson. By W. K. WIMSATT.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941. Pp. xvi + 166. $3.00. In his “Introduction” Mr. Wimsatt insists...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (4): 482–485.
Published: 01 December 1966
..., and Style of Tlioinns Carlyle’s First Major Work. By G. B. TENNYSON.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. viii + 354 pp. $8.50; 68s. G. B. Tennyson’s book will be valuable for years to come for at least two important reasons: it is one of those rare performances in which...